Excel Add-In using VS2010

[MadJock]

Hi all,

This was originally posted in the MS Office forum, but moved to a programming one as per suggesting there.

I want to develop an add-in for Excel, using Visual Studio. This add-in should have it's own ribbon tab and it's own action pane.

All the examples I've found cover customising the AddIn ribbon that is built in, or adding a new tab to a specific workbook. Neither of these achieves my goal of having the addin available to any workbook and coming with it's own tab.

It looks like this is possible using 3rd party software such as AddIn Express, but this seems overkill.

Am I missing something? Any useful advice or links would be appreciated.

Thanks,

Graeme

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[jmeckley]

Why does it seem like overkill? You need to design a product and this tool allows you to deliver value faster than if you wrote the addon from scratch. The price tags seems reasonable. I'm sure you could download a demo version to see if it meets your needs.

If it does than you need to compare the cost of AddIn Express vs. your time to write it from scratch. I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss this as a viable option.

Jason Meckley
Programmer

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